Cont: Donald Trump has 'dangerous mental illness' say psychiatry experts at Yale... Pt 3

Doc Lee weighs in:
You've often warned of the dangers of Trump's mental health. Do you think his mental state poses a danger as he is forced to respond to the coronavirus outbreak?

I believe it is the biggest threat right now, and people are beginning to see how his distorted view of reality is putting lives at risk. His inability to respond to a real emergency because of his preoccupation with his image and his re-election prospects sent the stock market on its largest one-day plunge in history. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. From coronavirus to the climate threat to a new nuclear arms race to the southern border, he worsens every situation in more ways than we can see, such as by gutting every agency that was set up to prepare for emergencies. This is not by accident. The mind is powerful, and I fear that perhaps the greatest danger is the alternative reality he is creating for his followers — all to buttress his fragile sense of self and to hide his incompetence.
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https://www.salon.com/2020/03/06/ya...-risk-with-coronavirus-pence-is-enabling-him/
 
I just watched Trump CDC news conference.
Now I won't get any sleep tonight....
Might be he most demented one yet.
 
Bob001 said:
The evidence of basic information-processing deficits keeps piling up:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/03/trumps-baffling-coronavirus-vaccine-event/
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“Yeah. But, like many people said, we have to be very careful here. If you vaccinate several hundred million people … ”

“You’ve got to make sure it works,” Trump said.

“Works and is safe,” Stoffels said. “Yeah."

“And it doesn’t hurt,” Trump said. “Right.”


Stable genius :covereyes .
 
dudalb said:
I just watched Trump CDC news conference.
Now I won't get any sleep tonight....
Might be he most demented one yet.
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From the conference (where he was wearing his red "Keep America Great" hat):
President Trump likes to say that he fell into politics almost by accident, and on Friday, as he sought to calm a nation gripped with fears over coronavirus, he suggested he would have thrived in another profession — medical expert.

“I like this stuff. I really get it,” Trump boasted to reporters during a tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where he met with actual doctors and scientists who are feverishly scrambling to contain and combat the deadly illness. Citing a “great, super-genius uncle” who taught at MIT, Trump professed that it must run in the family genes.

“People are really surprised I understand this stuff,” he said. “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...e0574c-5ffb-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html

Let's vote. Is that statement true or false?
 
Interesting article from a couple of years ago. The author notes that the definition of "mental illness" is so broad as to be useless. He contends that Trump is deliberately and maliciously evil.
If we are to combat Trump, we must understand how he has elevated and manipulated certain American values, like greed and exceptionalism, to undermine so many others, like truth, justice, and the American Constitution.

This is not madness. And the impulsivity, threats, aggression, ridicule, denial of reality, and mobilization of the mob that he used to get there are not symptoms. It is time to call it out for what it is: evil.

Arendt goes on to explain that we in the West are susceptible to such evil precisely because we cannot conceive of it. We prefer to believe that people are innately good, and evil is some kind of “fall from grace,” an anomaly, a madness perhaps, but one always “explained by comprehensible motives.” We are at a loss to confront Trumpism, because his strategy is evil for its own ends, and thus reflects, as Arendt described, “a system of values so radically different from all others, that none of our traditional legal, moral, or common sense utilitarian categories could any longer help us to come to terms with, or judge, or predict their course of action.”
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https://slate.com/technology/2017/03/donald-trump-isnt-mentally-ill-hes-evil.html
 
"They're big white ships with the red cross on the side"

Yes, those are the words of someone who is functioning.
 
Dr. Lee weighs in:
This a real crisis, both in terms of Trump's presidency and in terms of his psyche. At first Trump tried to manage the coronavirus in his mind by pretending that it was nothing. It was something that would go away in no time; the virus would somehow magically disappear. That is Trump's fantasy world. When that wasn't happening, and the stock market was in crisis and tumult, Trump then tried to look like he was in charge by giving a speech to the whole country. Trump continues to have these televised speeches and press conferences to make it look like he is control of the coronavirus crisis, all while he has Mike Pence and other government officials praise him on TV.

Trump is not in touch with reality. He cannot control the coronavirus with his mind and by living in a fantasy world, as he has done for most of the crisis. Mental health professionals have been warning for years that Trump's mental health issues would lead to such a dire situation. Trump is not showing just a lack of presidential leadership. What he is doing is so irresponsible and inept that having him as president is in some ways worse than having no leadership in the country at all. Trump is spreading disinformation, suppressing reality, and threatening those experts and other people who are telling him things about the coronavirus pandemic that he doesn't want to hear.

Now we in America and around the world are living through the horrible results of Trump's behavior. His mental health issues are translating directly into deaths and widespread calamity.
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https://www.salon.com/2020/03/23/dr...alth-pandemic-thats-making-coronavirus-worse/
 
jimbob said:
Look at Trump's response to this question:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1242502814640885764

Because the question included the word "perfect" - Trump jumps on that word and goes onto his Ukraine defence, before recovering.

And this word salad, which would rightly get shredded here, barely gets a comment.
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What the hell does Erdogan and the Kurds policy have to do with social distancing? Trump is nuts.
 
Stacyhs said:
What the hell does Erdogan and the Kurds policy have to do with social distancing? Trump is nuts.
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Bingo.

The whole interview makes sense if you put it in terms of Trump's fantasy world.

Incompetrump is recalling in Trumplandia what great bold actions he took and how he's the greatest POTUS ever.

Most people recognize this magical thinking as "If only I had done X, or I wish I had done X" This is part of the grieving process we use to help us get through a tragedy.

With Trump, the "if only" and "I wish" morphs into the belief he took those actions and the reasons the actions failed... oh wait, they didn't fail. The fantasy goes on into "I took all these great actions, we're doing better than any other country..."

:eusa_sick:
 
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